Date: Sun, 25 Aug 1996 13:02:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Francisco Reyes <reyes01@ibm.net> Cc: FreeBSD questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: How to get tar to read input files from file? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.960825125759.220D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199608250815.IAA30890@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net>
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On Sun, 25 Aug 1996, Francisco Reyes wrote: > I have a book which has a line like > tar -cvf /dev/fd0 'cat backup.list'>backup.log > > It is supposed to read the file names from a file called backup.list. > When I try it it dowsn't work. I tried also using <backup.list and > that didn't work either. Well, what it appears to be doing is creating a tar archive to a floppy disk, backing up the files in backup.list, and outputting any messages to backup.log. I don't know whether /dev/fd0 or /dev/rfd0 is the right device though. It's dumping the output archive *directly* to the floppy disk, no filesystem or anything. > Any suggestions on how to pipe a file to tar to read input files? That should be correct. My guess would be that the the files in backup.list have to be on one line, like "/etc/rc /etc/rc.local /etc/netstart ..." and so on. Try looking at the tar man page 'man tar' for info. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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